Just a minor point but the MOD press team are overwhelmingly military staff. Pay a visit to DGMC and you'll see acres of SO2s and SO1s and very few Civil Servants. If you don't like the lines used, then you need to accept that there is a very strong liklihood that a military person came up with it.
As for MOD being Govt - total b*ll****. The MOD is everyone in the building and beyond - strange how you're all so quick to blame the CS for everything that goes wrong, yet as soon as the usual myths about who actually works in MB are quashed, people go quiet...